Improved car-replacer



'iaitt .tats/5 fI-IENRY SCHREINER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 85,137, dated December 22, 1868; ntednterl November 3, 1.868.

IMPvED cAB-REPLACER.

The Schedule referred to in thee Letters Patent and makngpart of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ScHnmNEn, of the city' of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania,have iuvented a new and useful Improvement in the Portable Qar-Replaccr; and'l do hereby declare that the follow- V,ing is a-"full, clear, and exact description of the conlstruction and operation of the same, reference being khad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, iii whieh- Figure lis a plan view ofthe said improved replacer applied to a'railwav-tmck .Figures 2 and 3, transverse sections of the replacer, lon the dotted lines c 1c and .c 1/,respcctivellv, of fig. l;

and

, Figure 4, a side elevation, showing the manner of applying the adj usting-wedge Like letters of reference indica-te the same parts when in the ditierent figures.

The object of my improvement is to afford or produce a simple, durable, easily-applied, and more reliable and certain means for replacing a car or locomotiveengine upon a railway-track; and

The nature of my invention consists, snbstantia-lllvas hereinafter shown and described, in the peculiar construction of a pair of sloping iron plates, 'cach provided r`with two elevated ridges or bea-rings, to guide the respective wheels of the car or locomotive to their proper positions on the track-rails, with a groove and a spikeholc, to keep them in their said positions upon the rails, and with an adjustingvedge to render them steady and firm on rails of.diii`erent heights.

Referring to the drawings- A B represent the plate forthe outside ofthe track, and C D, the plate for the inside ofthe track, both being applied to the respective-'rails E and F.

a' b', the elevated ridges orbearings of the plate A B.

c 1l', the elevated ridges or bearings of the plate OD.

G Gr, the respectiveadinsting-wedges ofthe two plates.

H H, the respective grooves, and

I I, the respective spike-holes of the saine.

The plates, with' their elevated ridges or bearings, grooves, and wedge-seats, are each intended to be made of iron cast in one solid piece, and to be about two feet long, andabout fifteen inches wide at their rear or thinner ends, and about eight or ten inches wide at their forward or thicker end.

In the under side of the thicker end of each, the groove I is made so as to readily fit over upon the rail E or F, which supports it, while the thin rear end of the said plate rests upon the ground beside the rail,

thus prmlucing an inc-lined plane, reachingv from the ground upward to and upon the top of the rail.

The elevated bearing ba'nd ridges e' ll', receive and fend oli' the flanges of the wheels of' both sides ofthe car or locomotive, as they come in contact with them; and thus guide the wheels up the respective planes; the said wheels on cach side of the car rolling upontheir flanges, until the'yrea-ch nearly to the top of the planes, whei'c the bearing b is made thicker or more elevated, so `that it lifts the wheel en that side .by its tread, in such a manner as to clear its flange ii'om the tlat plane b", and thus allow the tread of the wheel to bear only upon the lint plane b', and thus to diminish its speed in relation to the opposite wheel, (of the same axlc,) which rolls upon its flange, and in this manner cause the forward end of the car to turn toward the left, so as to come moe'into line with the track before it drops upon thc track-rails. (See the faint lines in iig. I.)

v In applying these plates AB and CD, to the track rails E F, the wedges G G are to'be either pushed i11- ward, or drawn outward, in their respective seats under 'the plates'7 until thc latter become steady or firm, and,

when necessary, a-n iron pin or spike should be driven through the respective holes I I into Vthe ground, in order to keep the inner sides of the rear'ends of the pla-tes in close contact with the sidesof the respective rails..

In the drawings, the platesare shownas in positions for replacing a car from the .let't sides of the track-rails. In order to` replace from thea-ight side, the plates must b e changed'and reversed upon the track-rails, and then the car backed on, but it is intended, when locomotives are used, to have' two pairs of plates, a right audalefthand set, to be carried on each train.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is confined to the following, i. 6,:

A portable car-replacer, consisting of the pair of sloping plates A B and C D, for the right and left rails, respectively, of a track, the plate A B having the elevated ridges or bearings af and b', and the plate C D having the elevated ridges or bearings c and d', and each plate having the ri1groove H, andthe adjustingfwedge G,

all the said parts being constructed and arranged in relation to the slopes of the respective plates A B and C D, as shown and described for the purposes specitied.

HENRY .SGHREINER Witnesses:

BENJ. MoRIsoN, WM. H. Morrison. 

